Douglas Mapfumo, the former Polokwane City FC and Cape Town City FC striker, is now eyeing a move to Europe after becoming a free agent. The 25-year-old Zimbabwean forward parted ways with Polokwane ...

Following the intense fallout over the performance rights to Thomas Mapfumo’s catalogue, musician Kurai Makore has adhered to his uncle’s restrictions by performing an entire set of his own original ...

Willow Smith highlights Zimbabwean legend Thomas Mapfumo’s 1984 classic in a Pigeons & Planes interview, sparking pride among Zimbabweans for his timeless music.

Lion Songs (Duke University Press), Banning Eyre’s biography of Zimbabwean musical innovator Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo, is an intensely detailed and lucid work. Eyre, a guitar-playing journalist, is ...

The constant political and social unrest in Zimbabwe stemming from its oppressed period of colonization when it was wrongly known as Rhodesia, spawned chimurenga music—the music of struggle and ...

More than any other artist except perhaps Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi, Thomas Mapfumo has become Zimbabwe's musical ambassador to the world. That's ironic, because while the people of his country celebrate ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. In 1977, when Zimbabwe was ...

UNITED STATES-based music legend Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo has spoken on the recent Gold Mafia documentary aired by International news channel, Al Jazeera recently. Gold Mafia is a four-part ...

EXILED Chimurenga musician Thomas “Mukanya” Mapfumo says he will not be able to travel to Zimbabwe for the burial of his late brother Lancelot as he fears for his life. Lancelot, a percussionist, was ...

As Bob Marley is to Jamaicans or Fela Kuti is to Nigerians, Thomas Mapfumo is to Zimbabweans. The bandleader is a superstar in his home country, both for his masterful blending of traditional sounds ...